But all that’s past us now, I hope your Xmas/Chanukah/Kwanza/(seasonal celebration of choice) and New Years were fun and exciting. Hopefully you got all the fun stuff you wanted, saw all the people you wanted to, and that you haven’t broken your resolutions just yet.

Mine was to start cooking and buy less fast food. So far, I’m doing well.

My big present to myself was the Watch the Throne tour that came through Tacoma earlier this month. Jay-Z and Kanye West presenting themselves for a 2.5 hour set. No opening act, no fillers, no BS.

Gotta be one of the best concerts ever. Two of the greatest sharing the stage, and trading time between themselves to do their best solo work too. Wow. Seriously, start to finish great.

Well..

Except this one part, with Kanye, kinda getting all weird. But we will get there later.

To start, both came out on top of 20+ foot tall cubes with screens on them, 1 cube on the main stage, 1 cube on the middle of the arena. Jay-Z was closest to us on this cube, with a freaking shark.

The laser show they had going on was crazy too. Very effective use of lighting.

Otis!

Here’s where Kanye went kinda buzz kill. He spent 20 minutes on his cube all red, doing some songs, but then kinda broke down in his 808s and Heartbreaks stuff, then started on a lecture talking about love, and how it’s all sad, went all emo. That and he would not stop using auto-tune. Gold digger auto tune is not something people should hear. 80% of the show he was great, the other 20% were awkward for everyone involved.

AGAIN! These guys love N*ggas In Paris. They did it 5 times, 3 of them encore. Apparently LA got it like 9 times. Awesome song though, great energy from them and the crowd. My favorite part was when they would hit the heavy bass at the end of the song. This light show looking like rain and thunder would go off, amazing. Every time the song would hit this part, you would hear Kanye, “I know right? That’s so cool.”

Definitely one of the best concerts I’ve ever been to.

Nothing exciting happened during Christmas, went and saw family, it was great to spend time with them all.

Then came New Years


Spam Masubi!

First time drinking Hennessy. I like. Had some Jameson too, but I prefer Crown or Hennessy to it.

Beer pong! I won twice in a row, and unlike Jordan, went out on top.

2011 New Years Eve Beer Pong Champion

I can only hope that 2012 brings the same success.

Behind The Boards: Sabzi (Blue Scholars)- Loyalty from WeveGotTheJazz on Vimeo.

Weve Got the Jazz did an interview w/ Sabzi of Blue Scholars fame, cool insight on how the creative process sometimes happens. Things you dismiss and never mean to get out, end up being some of the best stuff around.

Might have something to do with honesty; if you have no intention of sharing it with others, you don’t mind honest with yourself, putting yourself out there and being silly, weird, funny, or totally different than how you see yourself and how you’re “supposed” to do things. Sometimes you have to get outside the box you put yourself in?

Life changing app. Get it. Now.

Went to the Huskies v. Ducks game which happened to be the last home game at the current configuration of Husky Stadium. Pretty cool, and lucky to be able to do it.

It was also Gus’ first birthday and we all went to Norm’s in Fremont.

Titan wanted to wish Gus a happy birthday

Magners. My new favorite apple juice. Don’t give it to your kids.

But maybe I’m reading too much into it, and I’m just a sucker for a beautifully designed convertible. The lines on this car are seriously stunning. Perfect from the hood into the windshield, and the rake from the windshield into the engine cover, it’s a perfect balance.

Would I take this over a 599 or 458? No. Would I take this over a California? Definitely. So there is room for a newer Lamborghini in my life somewhere I guess. Because god knows I wouldn’t say no to a Countach or Miura

Aside from the OS, pushes all the right buttons for me.

If you must have a blackberry for work or something, buy this.

Here’s my team entry.

Some of the other entries. Ok I guess.

I love the crisp autumn air though.